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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-06-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-06-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T130000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T110000
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-06-04/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:'The Man Who Changed Colors'
DESCRIPTION:A video of this June 3\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n\nWith Bill Fletcher Jr\, activist/author/crime novelist\nWhen a dockworker falls to his death under strange circumstances\, investigative journalist David Gomes is on the case. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for. The Man Who Changed Colors delves into the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans\, Portuguese fascist gangs\, and abusive shipyard working conditions.\n“Bill Fletcher is a truth seeker and a truth teller – even when he’s writing fiction. Not unlike Bill\, his character David Gomes is willing to put his life and career in peril to expose the truth. A thrilling read!” – Tavis Smiley\, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author \nBill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. He has been active in workplace and community struggles and in electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and the former president of TransAfrica Forum. His books include a previous David Gomes story\, The Man Who Fell From the Sky\, and nonfiction works The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations\, 1934-1941 (with Peter Agard); Solidarity Divided (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin)\, and ‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ and Twenty Other Myths About Unions. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television\, radio and the Web. \nBook available from Hardball Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/the-man-who-changed-colors/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Labor Organizing,Literary Studies,Literature,Migration,Noir Fiction,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,US History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T143000
DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T110000
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T143000
DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T143000
DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230514T123000
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T170000
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SUMMARY:The Fallout of War: Metonyms of Militarism
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 13\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nYale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nSecond of two parts. Part One \nWar: what is it\, and what is it good for? War might seem like a foregone conclusion or a state of exception; in either case it is an archetype of crisis. In two linked sessions\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies – war – and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Trade wars can become militarized\, and hot wars can look cold\, depending on your vantage point. The race war\, Twitter tells us\, is impending; but in an age of US forever war(s)\, understanding war as punctuating the flow of history seems to be entirely insufficient. War is\, some argue\, a way of life\, a structuring condition that shapes our examinations of the history of the present. The war on drugs\, the war on poverty\, the war on COVID\, the war on Christmas – war is also a ubiquitous metaphor\, a self-righteous idiom that announces moral panic and articulates racial logic in otherwise terms. But metaphors of war have also influenced various radical traditions and social movements\, including anti-war activism and Gramsci’s deployment of metaphors of war in his theorizing of hegemony. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present\, the working group explores war’s meanings as event\, analytic\, and metaphor. \nPanel II Presentations:\nAanchal Saraf theorizes nuclear fallout in the Pacific as war itself moving through the landscapes\, bodies\, and generations of the Marshall Islands and its peoples.\nJavier Porras Madero explores “Dirty Wars” in Latin America for their classed\, raced\, and gendered dimensions as well as their implications for how we may understand conflict\, violence\, and the global Cold War.\nMadeleine Han’s presentation focuses on the Han River both as the face of South Korean postwar economic development (referred to as the “Miracle on the Han”) and as a repository of submerged cold war memories.\nMaru Pabón examines the dominant genres and styles of two poetic projects that emerged out of anticolonial/anti-imperial struggles in Palestine and Cuba\, shiʿr al-muqawama and coloquialismo\, in relation to the distinct temporalities of the two conflicts.\nMonique Flores Ulysses considers U.S. cultural texts seemingly disconnected from war but nonetheless imbricated in war-making during the early years of the Global War on Terror.\nMichael Denning chairs this panel. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University for two decades. Over the years\, we have presented work collaboratively at numerous cultural studies conferences as well as at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. The current members—Aanchal Saraf\, Damanpreet Pelia\, Javier Porras Madero\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Madeleine Han\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, and Salonee Bhaman—work in American studies\, history\, Latinx studies\, literary criticism\, African-American studies\, Asian American studies\, comparative literature\, and womens\, gender and sexuality studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/wggc2023-2/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Asia,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Literature,Media Criticism,Modernity,Poetry,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,State Formation,War,War Fiction,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T143000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T123000
DTSTAMP:20230402T142617Z
CREATED:20230402T142430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T170000
DTSTAMP:20230515T221457Z
CREATED:20230421T134016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T221457Z
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SUMMARY:The Fallout of War: Chronologies of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:A video of this May 6\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nYale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nFirst of two parts. Part Two \nWar: what is it\, and what is it good for? War might seem like a foregone conclusion or a state of exception; in either case it is an archetype of crisis. In two linked sessions\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies – war – and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Trade wars can become militarized\, and hot wars can look cold\, depending on your vantage point. The race war\, Twitter tells us\, is impending; but in an age of US forever war(s)\, understanding war as punctuating the flow of history seems to be entirely insufficient. War is\, some argue\, a way of life\, a structuring condition that shapes our examinations of the history of the present. The war on drugs\, the war on poverty\, the war on COVID\, the war on Christmas – war is also a ubiquitous metaphor\, a self-righteous idiom that announces moral panic and articulates racial logic in otherwise terms. But metaphors of war have also influenced various radical traditions and social movements\, including anti-war activism and Gramsci’s deployment of metaphors of war in his theorizing of hegemony. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present\, the working group explores war’s meanings as event\, analytic\, and metaphor. \nPanel I Presentations:\nDamanpreet Pelia reflects on teaching “civil wars” both as metaphor and historical event\, the usefulness of reading old texts\, and the problem of making sense of the present in the classroom.\nMichael Denning reviews Marxist theories of war\, developing an account of capitalist conscription and imperial wars.\nLucero Estrella thinks comparatively about Japanese-Mexicans and Japanese-Americans on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border during World War II.\nJessica Marion Modi thinks through the metaphorics of war in black poetry following World War II\, theorizing the “off-rhyme situation\,” as poet Gwendolyn Brooks called it\, of a postwar atomic age and slowly decolonizing world in which black Americans had fought for democracy abroad without the provision of it at home.\nSalonee Bhaman writes on the “Culture Wars” from the rise if the New Right to the “Witch Hunts” of the present day.\nMarú Pabón chairs this panel. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University for two decades. Over the years\, we have presented work collaboratively at numerous cultural studies conferences as well as at the Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. The current members—Aanchal Saraf\, Damanpreet Pelia\, Javier Porras Madero\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Madeleine Han\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, and Salonee Bhaman—work in American studies\, history\, Latinx studies\, literary criticism\, African-American studies\, Asian American studies\, comparative literature\, and womens\, gender and sexuality studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/wggc2023-1/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Globalization,History,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Latin America,Marx,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,State Formation,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T123000
DTSTAMP:20230402T142617Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
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SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T143507Z
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SUMMARY:Arise! The Mexican Revolution's Global Impact
DESCRIPTION:With Author Christina Heatherton\nThe Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Christina Heatherton’s book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. Heatherton traces the paths of Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett\, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy\, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón\, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi\, Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai\, and other key figures. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities\,” Arise! reconstructs how radical organizers found new ways to fight global capitalism and forge an anti-racist internationalism from below. \nChristina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. With Jordan T. Camp she edited Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter and Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond. She currently codirects the Trinity Social Justice Initiative and is co-host and co-producer of the SJI’s podcast Conjuncture. \nArise! is available from the publisher\, University of California Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/arise-mexican-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Anti-colonialism,Art and politics,Bolshevism,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,History,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Latin America,Mexican Revolution,Modernity,Revolutions,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T123000
DTSTAMP:20230402T142617Z
CREATED:20230402T142430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T142617Z
UID:10006583-1682247600-1682253000@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Political Writings of Marx and Engels III
DESCRIPTION:This group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. This third and final series takes up articles on India\, China\, and European colonialism; essays on the Civil War in the United States; documents related to the International Workingmen’s Association; Marx’s classic The Civil War in France and related essays; polemics against Bakunin; and Marx’s correspondence about the rise of the workers’ political party in Germany\, including his Critique of the Gotha Program. \nAll readings are available in the Verso Press anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings. These writings are also available from many other sources in book form and online. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/political-writings-iii/2023-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anarchism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,China,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Engels,England,France,Hegemony,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@mepnet.wpenginepowered.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230118T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-18/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230111T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007199-1673460000-1673465400@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-11/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230104T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007198-1672855200-1672860600@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2023-01-04/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221228T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007197-1672250400-1672255800@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-28/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221227T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221227T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221221T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007196-1671645600-1671651000@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-21/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221220T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-14/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221213T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221207T193000
DTSTAMP:20230124T164701Z
CREATED:20221007T221713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T164701Z
UID:10007194-1670436000-1670441400@marxedproject.net
SUMMARY:Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism
DESCRIPTION:This study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. Robinson argued that Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on western continents. Analyses of African-American history need to acknowledge this; from the time of the early formation of a world bourgeoisie\, to the African diaspora\, to the Atlantic slave trade\, to the 20th Century. Robinson’s text also addresses the work and legacies of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Dubois\, and Richard Wright in their anticapitalist positions and their contributions to and conflicts with Western Marxism. Convened by William Stroud and Peter Wilson.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/cedric-robinsons-black-marxism/2022-12-07/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,Marxisms,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Socialism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221206T200000
DTSTAMP:20220926T235541Z
CREATED:20220805T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T235541Z
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race - Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\, on Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, including vol. 1\, Racial Oppression and Social Control; and vol. 2\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (the 2022 edition combines both volumes into a single book).\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” all identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and related approaches may be well informed by studying The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen. We will read from the third edition\, which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (Available from Verso at a 30% discount) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern-setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/invention-of-the-white-race-fall-2022/2022-12-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Colonialism,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class
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